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House Overwhelmingly Rejects (429-2) Obama Signing Statement
Patriot Room ^ | July 9, 2009 | Bill Dupray

Posted on 07/09/2009 8:36:39 PM PDT by Bill Dupray

Maybe you remember this one, when Obama signed a bill last month, which, if I remember my Schoolhouse Rock correctly, makes it a law, he said he would simply ignore the parts he didn't like. This is something a dictator in a banana republic might say. After all, everybody knows that Legislatures can be a real pain in the arse when it comes to taking over the country.

Well, the House has this crazy notion that President Obama is not above the law.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: house; obama; signingstatement; war

1 posted on 07/09/2009 8:36:40 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
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To: Bill Dupray

So there are two idiots in the House who believe their positions are useless and/or superfluous? Interesting...


2 posted on 07/09/2009 8:38:45 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: Bill Dupray
Maybe you remember this one, when Obama signed a bill last month, which, if I remember my Schoolhouse Rock correctly, makes it a law, he said he would simply ignore the parts he didn't like. This is something a dictator in a banana republic might say.

W did it all the time.

3 posted on 07/09/2009 8:39:25 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62

So, W isn’t president right now. Does that mean it is still fine?


4 posted on 07/09/2009 8:42:29 PM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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To: Moonman62

One of the best taglines I’ve ever seen.


5 posted on 07/09/2009 8:42:43 PM PDT by papasmurf (Save us from 0bama, I prayed. Then I heard, "the 2nd, I saved")
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To: Anti-Kenyan

It never was fine. W should have used the veto much more often instead of signing statements.


6 posted on 07/09/2009 8:47:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62

So what if Bush did it all the time? Libs use that line as if it addresses the question. In this case, the GOP demanded the provision Obama wanted to ignore as a condition for voting for it. Then Obama wants to ignore that part, thereby nullifying our guys’ votes. I think that is a problem.


7 posted on 07/09/2009 8:50:33 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
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To: Future Snake Eater

“So there are two idiots in the House who believe their positions are useless and/or superfluous? Interesting...”

Most likely “Mad Max” (Maxine Waters) and someone else from the Congressional Black Caucus.


8 posted on 07/09/2009 8:59:58 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Bill Dupray
In this case, the GOP demanded the provision Obama wanted to ignore as a condition for voting for it.

Sounds like the GOP was pretty stupid.

9 posted on 07/09/2009 9:04:30 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62

Whatever happened to line-item veto - is that still ever used?


10 posted on 07/09/2009 9:22:07 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: the anti-liberal

Re: Line Item Veto

Ruled: Unconstitutional.


11 posted on 07/09/2009 9:30:57 PM PDT by gigster
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Yet that is essentially what 0bama is doing - the line item veto, without any legal basis.


12 posted on 07/09/2009 10:44:34 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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“Legal basis? We don’t need no steenking legal basis!”


13 posted on 07/09/2009 11:37:37 PM PDT by gigster
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To: Bill Dupray

Even the DUmmies reamed their Messiah a new you know what regarding this. They didn’t like the Kenyan doing it either.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3961879

He is about to find out he isn’t the dictator he wants to be. For that to happen, he’s going to have to take on Congress and about 100 million Americans. He’s a sissy, no way, he will pee his pants, get his fuzzy blanket and lay in bed curled in a fetal position.


14 posted on 07/10/2009 1:00:33 AM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: mojitojoe
429-2 Good enough for impeachment.

yitbos

15 posted on 07/10/2009 1:10:24 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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